A court in Georgia on Monday rejected an appeal for former president Mikheil Saakashvili to be released from prison on health grounds. Saakashvili, who served as Georgia’s president in 2004-13 and led the so-called Rose Revolution protests that drove the previous president
Israel on Wednesday rejected the U.S.’ request to send Hawk missiles to Ukraine as the Washington looks to bolster defenses for Kyiv ahead of a looming Russian offensive. The Biden administration asked for old Hawk anti-aircraft missiles that Jerusalem had in storage
BBC Chairman Richard Sharpe has addressed the allegations that he helped former Prime Minister Boris Johnson secure a loan guarantee before being recommended for the broadcaster’s top job. Last week the Sunday Times reported that Mr Sharpe helped arrange a guarantor on a loan
Prince Harry has told ABC News’ Michael Strahan that he doesn’t think “it’s ever going to be possible” to return to his royal role in the UK. The Duke said that the prospect of a return to royal duties looks unlikely, “even
Volodymyr Zelensky has emphatically rejected Putin’s calls for a 36-hour Christmas ceasefire, which would have been effective from midday today (10am GMT). He accused the Kremlin of using the break to “continue the war with renewed vigour” by repositioning troops closer to
The European Union’s top health agency said this week it would not require negative COVID testing from travels arriving from China and called Italy’s push to do so “unjustified.” China has seen a surge in cases over the past month as Beijing
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday put the kibosh on a proposed “peace formula” offered by Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accusing Zelenskyy of being a puppet of western countries. “Obviously, Kyiv is not ready for dialogue,” Lavrov told the Russian state
Russia on Tuesday rejected Kyiv’s proposal for a United Nations sanctioned “peace summit” by likening it to a computer error and calling it “diplomacy 404.” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told the Associated Press on Monday that Ukraine wants a peace summit